AdamF
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at 5am this morning, my gran went out talk walk the dogs, leaving my grandad in bed. 2 mins up the road she passes a speeding car quickly followed by a load crash. she assusmes it has hit the roundabout ( a fairly regular occurance as it is an A road used as a rat run by lorries for the A1.)
she returns after her walk to this.
her house if you hadnt realised where this story was going 
10mins earlier she would have been in there getting ready to go out. and my grandad who was in the bedroom which is the front right hand window was thrown out of bed and had to be helped out side by firemen as the stairs are to the left of the picture so he was trapped by rubble.
every other day this week he has been up at that time watching cricket and would have been in that room. 
just makes you think how lucky you can be sometimes
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Robin
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Holy fuck 
Right place, right time.
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Ellis
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Fuck me!
That's lucky
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gavin18787
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fucking hell 
hope they are both all ok and the pillock gets whats coming to them
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AdamF
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he was still there when they got the so they have him for all the good it will do
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VegasPhil
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Lucky!
How the fuck do you make that secure?
I bet they don't allow you back in to get anything out. Then the looting scumbags will appear?
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PaulW
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he'll get 6 months community order no doubt, paying compo back at like 20p a fucking week
I'm not no structural engineer like, but house looks like its a knock down job looking at how the wall is on the front... unless it can be repaired 
still, atleast ya family is safe and well. houses can be rebuilt/replaced (like cars), its the people that cant...
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AdamF
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they seem to think its repairable
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Daniel_Corsa
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FOOOOOOOOKING HELL!
Lucky your grandparents were in the right places at the right time!
Thats a fair old mess, will take some fixing by look of things!
How fast was he going to take out the house!
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Gregor
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Fuckin hell thats lucky. And Im pretty sure they could repair that , been on many jobs where house fronts etc have been rebuilt. But that must have hit with some amount of force
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paul.mitchell1984
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jesus hope ur gdads ok, lucky isnt the word in this case more of mioracle, wtf was he driving a tank?
will the house have to be totally knowcked down and rebuilt? just looking at the crack all the way up wall and into window.
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Gregor
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Also looks like the window has cracked above the wall crack ? Shows the movement involved :O
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stubbsy05
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What car was he driving?
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Gregor
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18 wheeler by the look of things
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Mike
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Shit
Glad to here your Grandparents are ok, it's scary when you start thinking what could've happened.
Tbh it's scary just to see what actually happened
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AdamF
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he was driving a renault megane and apparently he hit the corner of the house and the rest just collapsed. he was doing it excess of 70mph so they think
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Haimsey
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My gosh.
Glad all are okay. Badger should be banned for life.
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Colin
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Jeasus
Simmilar thing happened to my grandads, he lived at the bottom of a very steep hill. Some local youths had got their hands on a hire car & drove at speed down the hill making air bout half way down, this snapped the steering when they landed & went right on into his front room of his house.
He was in the back making a cuppa at the time.
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Twiggy
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Same thing in Scotland!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7863331.stm
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Matt H
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At least they're OK! Could've been nasty
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jr
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fucking hell adam 
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Corsa Sport Gav
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where was this at Adam? just my mam friends just told her about a car that crashed into a house in her esate lastnight, where a young female passenger was killed.
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Whittie
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Wow, thats lucky.
Such a shame for them though, where are they staying now?
She's a nutter for taking the dogs out at 5am Bet shes glad she's in that routine though!
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sand-eel
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quote:
Originally posted by Twiggy
Same thing in Scotland!!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7863331.stm
aye thats quite near me, lucky for the people inside.
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Chris x
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Fucking hell! Glad they where ok!
Little common in Bexhill?
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